Month November 2009

Various links. 11/06/09

Ex Citigroup-CEO apologizes for role in building it, says bring back Glass-Steagall and break up Citigroup. Alan Grayson. Congressman with guts Doubt raised about theory of peak oil. Arrested trader Zvi Goffer nicknamed “Octopussy” because he had sources everywhere. A…

Gateway to New Economy

After operating on the periphery around Polizeros for a while, I’ve been invited to do a little scribble now and then. Honored. Polizeros has been a super-trooper blog pushing those frost heaves of progressivism for years. I’ll begin my foray…

Friday (un)employment snapshot

National unemployment rate hits 10.2%. Economists had forecast an increase to 9.9%. Since December 2007, employers have shed 8.2 million jobs, sending the unemployment rate up 5.3 percentage points. The ratio of job cuts to losses in gross domestic product,…